/lit/ - Literature

>>11558393
But I have

>>11558393
I do. Just read Beast in the Jungle the other day. I think that the beast is waiting for me too

>>11559183
Gad, anon. Resist!

>>11558393
His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."

>>11559199
James and Proust do deal with life and death. Corncob just means they don't express things in the intense and visceral fashion he likes.

>>11558393

>try to read The Golden Bowl
>mfw

why does he write to hard to read?

>>11559316
desu I found his later shit harder than Ulysses, but having not nearly the same meme status. Doesn't surprise me he isn't that talked about.

>>11559199
No wonder I can't tolerate McCorny. We have completely different tastes. To me Proust is as good as it gets.

He's s so very overrated.

>>11559316
We're all gonna make it anon. Late James is probably the toughest test in fiction.
>Do not get ashame. You try for more you can do today, but tomorrow, you read more. Everyone beginning somewhere, soon you will be strong.

>>11559349
Yeah me too. James and Proust are my two absolute favourites. Who else do you like?

le mannerisms man

>>11560048
>>11559325
>>11559316
What's the deal with his later novels? Haven't read them but I've also never heard of them being particularly hard or anything.

>>11559199
That's fucking retarded.

>>11559199
the absolute state of thinking Henry James and Marcel Proust arent real literature
this is mccarthy larping as nabokov with “strong opinions”

Read my dubs

>>11561254
His prose style in the later works is ornate to the point of madness. He's trying to describe conciousness and experience, as they're experienced, using the conventions of pre-modernist prose. He largely succeeds, but the resulting prose is so convoluted and complex it's like reading Kant or Hegel rather than a normal novel. Well worth the effort though.
Later writers like Joyce and Woolf and Faulkner learned from him not only to convey that inner life so richly, but also to use the prose innovations of modernism to avoid having to write it all out so painstakingly.

>>11561480
Failed.

>>11558393
No, Mussolini! I won't give into the false temptations of fascism!
(ppsst, although The Doctrine of Fascism is an interesting historical document but that's mostly thanks to the other guy who actually wrote it!)

>>11559367
>he's so very
under read.
anon, please-

>>11558393

You should start a meme where you photoshop Taleb's goatee onto his face and conflate their writing in brief spurts of greentext.

>>11563225
Weird. Would have to be James' late style as too little really distinguishes Taleb's from James' early style. Am thinking of that longish anecdote on good works unrecognized at the beginning of Swan. Why not post an example of what (you) mean?

>>11558393
too sophisticated to be taken seriously

>>11559199
McCarthy is "He acts crazy. We all act crazy, I guess. I guess God acts crazy"–tier. Who cares about his opinions?

btw if you don't get this reference you don't belong on /lit/

>>11563372
Just like me.

>>11558393
You look sickly sir.

>>11562015
>the prose innovations of modernism
and what are those